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Journal Article
Using the events leading to the War Powers Resolution of 1973 and its subsequent impact on US military interventions as an empirical example, this article elaborates the notion of 'legacy chains.'
News Release
February 15, 2007 News Release: RAND Report Examines Need to Hold Down Civilian Deaths in U.S. Military Operations.
News Release
February 12, 2007 News Release: RAND Issues 'The Beginner's Guide to Nation-Building'.
News Release
January 3, 2007 News Release: RAND Evaluates Efforts to Improve Effectiveness and Human Rights Performance of Internal Security Forces in 4 Nations.
Commentary
Published commentary by RAND staff: Crafting Terror Strategy, in United Press International.
Commentary
Published commentary by RAND staff: PThe World Needs a Prefab Constitution in the International Herald Tribune.
Journal Article
While the new Iraqi constitution is relatively forward leaning with respect to women's issues, international attention should maintain focus on the emerging code of law and the manner of implementation, to secure women's equity under its code.
Journal Article
This article seeks to explain both who participates in military intervention decisions and how they participate.
Commentary
Published commentary by RAND staff.
Commentary
Published commentary by RAND staff.
Report
International Law and the Politics of Urban Air Operations
Report
A discussion of Public Law 93-50 forbidding expenditure of U.S. funds for combat in Cambodia, Laos, North Vietnam and South Vietnam after 15 August 1973, and the War Powers Resolution limiting the President's power to engage U.S. troops, and how...
Report
An argument for bridging the information gap between policymakers and academicians. The researcher faces many problems in bringing his material before the policymaker--e.g., policymakers' lack of time and ignorance of quantitative methods. It is pr...
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Research Assistant
M.A. in conflict, security and development, University of Sussex; B.A. in law & society, University of Exeter
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Associate Economist
Ph.D. in economics, University of Louvain
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Research Assistant
M.Sc. in migration studies, University of Oxford; B.A. in social studies, Harvard University
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Senior Political Scientist; Professor, Pardee RAND Graduate School
J.D., The University of Chicago Law School; A.B. in international affairs, Princeton University
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Social Scientist
J.D. in law, Indiana University; B.S.E. in chemical engineering, University of Michigan
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Research Assistant
B.S. in physics, Yale University
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